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half-awake

adjective

  1. not fully awake


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Now half-awake, we need all the help we can get in understanding our situation.

Half awake, in her bed, she tried to remain cognizant as she talked on the phone.

I lay there in my bunk; half awake, I tried to settle my thoughts regarding the unknown.

Or rather I suppose I was only half awake; but you seemed to open that door so easily that it quite startled me.

She slept lightly at first, half awake and drowsily attentive to the things about her.

There was, however, a difficulty when Ida rose to her feet, and stood looking about her half awake.

Walking, half awake, Ida floundered among the boulders and through a horrible maze of whitened driftwood cast up by the stream.

He seemed but half awake; and it was with drowsy voice that he called for a cup of cold small beer.

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